Re: Is the Debian-user server slow or ... ?
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 04:31:00PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Email isn't always synchronous and is rarely instant; it's possible that
> > replies get delivered before the original message.
>
> I run mailing lists myself and over the past few decades have belonged to
> quite a few.
>
> Only debian-user routinely takes 12 hours to send posts.
Don't forget that Debian's list server handles tens or hundreds of
thousands of mail transactions every day. When it gets bombarded by a
particularly cunning spammer (as has happened many times in the past),
even a small delay quickly becomes noticable.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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